LHC grants bail to Rana Sanaullah in narcotics case.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday granted bail to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Rana Sanaullah in the narcotics possession case.

Sanaullah has been granted bail against two surety bonds worth Rs1 million each.

Earlier, on November 10, a special court for the Control of Narcotics Substances had dismissed Sanaullah's bail petition. The petition had pleaded that the case against Sanaullah was 'politically motivated and based on mala fide intentions. It had argued that the alleged recovery of narcotics from Sanaullah had merely been an 'eyewash'.

The petition had said that the prosecution had failed to present any independent witnesses of the alleged recovery from Sanaullah. It had said that the video evidence presented before the trial court had been contradictory to the incidents narrated in the first information report (FIR), according to The News.

Failing that petition, Sanaullah had again approached the LHC on November 20 seeking release on bail.

On July 1, the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) had arrested Sanaullah while he was heading for a meeting from Faisalabad to Lahore. A case was filed in accordance with the Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 1997 after a large stash of contraband was allegedly recovered from his vehicle.

Speaking to media, PML-N's Talal Chaudhry lashed out at the government, saying: 'This is a fake government that has made fake cases against the opposition.'

'The relief being afforded to our leaders these days is because the cases [registered against them] are fake,' he said. 'If today someone is [set] free, tomorrow someone else will be arrested.'

He added that the incumbent government was surviving on fake arrests and "running on fake cases".

Chaudhry said there were now question marks over the ANF...

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